Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

91

To: N. A. SEMASHKO

Written: Written in March, not before the 16th, 1921
Published: First published in 1932 in Lenin Miscellany XX. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 45, pages 97^c-98^a.
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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Comrade Semashko:

(1) I earnestly request you to appoint a special person (preferably a well-knownphysician, with a knowledge of foreign countries and known abroad for sending abroad, to Germany (of Tsyurupa, Krestinsky, Osinsky, Kurayev, Gorky, Korolenkoand others). The utmost skillshould be employed in inquiring, requesting, persuading, and writing to Germany, to help the sick, etc.

Do this most punctiliously
(thoroughly).

(2) Send the bestphysician to give N. I. Bukharin a medical examination(the heart, among other things) and let me know the result.

Lenin